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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St. Charles Borromeo in Arlington[/quote]

Not anymore.

BTW, you're not supposed to feel welcome if you're looking for affirmation for your non-Catholicness, (anti-)"Pope" Francis notwithstanding. I was so glad to see the Pastor at St. Charles, Fr. Don Planty, boot the music person because she "married" a non-Catholic divorce. We have to have SOME standards if we're going to be a bastion of Holiness in this cesspool of iniquity.[/quote]

I cry BS on the veracity of this post.  It is far too ridiculous to be taken seriously.[/quote]

NP. I am a long time St. Charles parishioner.  Sadly, there may be some truth to this.  St. Charles for a very long time was a much more open minded, progressive and very active in social justice ministries Catholic church.  In the past couple years with the new pastor things have changed dramatically and now it is much more traditional.  Many families have left, almost all people in charge of various ministries left (including music) and many of the young adults left (this church is in Clarendon and for years the 6 pm mass was literally overflowing with young people in their 20ies and 30ies).  What was once a truly special Catholic church is now just your average run of the mill Catholic church.  The only vestige left is the younger priest who is excellent, and the high school youth group.  We keep going hoping that someday our old St. Charles will return.

I will never understand why the bishop replaced our old pastor with our new one unless he intentionally wanted to drive people away from the church.[/quote]

The land's worth a ton. A TON. You can't sell, though, if you have a vibrant parish.

But it was vibrant because it was so welcoming, and so driven toward social justice. You barely heard a peep about abortion in that church under Creedon, but you heard all sorts of things about tithing to a parish in Haiti and affordable housing and whatnot. So it made a ton of sense to transition from Creedon to Grinnell (who would at least talk about abortion), to Planty (who would focus on abortion and one's piety and charity).

As you do that, you drop people from Creedon to Grinnell, and then more when you bring in Planty. You hope that Planty can attract his fans to replace the cafeteria Catholics who were attending under Creedon. Do that, and supplement the Creedon people's old bequests with the new donations. You then sell air rights to the church, and use the money from the mixed-income development to build the Planty basilica.

If you lose too many members, then you empty the parish out and just sell the property altogether for top dollar.

Either way it's a win-win from the Bishop's perspective.[/quote]

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